Editing Homestead, Florida (section)

==Government and infrastructure==
[[File:Homestead FL Downtown HD town hall03.jpg|thumb|[[Homestead Town Hall]]]]
The [[Florida Department of Corrections]] operates the [[Dade Correctional Institution]] and the [[Homestead Correctional Institution]] in an [[unincorporated area]] near Homestead.<ref>"[http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region4/419.html Homestead Correctional Institution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528232506/http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region4/419.html |date=May 28, 2010 }}." [[Florida Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on May 15, 2010.</ref><ref>"Dade Correctional Institution at Homestead."</ref><ref>"[http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region4/463.html Dade Correctional Institution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428033554/http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region4/463.html |date=April 28, 2010 }}." [[Florida Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on May 15, 2010.</ref> The Dade CI was originally the Dade Correctional Institution Annex, and the Homestead CI was originally the Dade Correctional Institution; the two received their current names on July 1, 2003.<ref>"[http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/0203/pdfs/facilities.pdf FACILITIES ON JUNE 30, 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229161226/http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/0203/pdfs/facilities.pdf |date=February 29, 2012 }}." [[Florida Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on May 15, 2010.</ref> In June 2018, [[Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children]], a federal facility operated by [[Comprehensive Health Services, Inc.]], was estimated to hold 1,000 minor detainees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homestead-florida-government-releases-video-facility-undocumented-children/|title=Government releases video showing inside of Florida facility housing undocumented children|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref>

The [[United States Postal Service]] operates the Homestead Post Office.<ref>"[http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/homestead-739-washington-ave-homestead-fl-1367307 Post Office Location&nbsp;– HOMESTEAD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100429134507/http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/homestead-739-washington-ave-homestead-fl-1367307 |date=2010-04-29 }}." [[United States Postal Service]]. Retrieved on May 15, 2010.</ref>

The [[Homestead Police Department]] located at 45 Northwest First Avenue in Homestead.

On October 11, 1957, an Air Force [[B-47 Stratojet]] carrying a [[nuclear bomb]] crashed on takeoff at Homestead Air Force Base, present-day [[Homestead Air Reserve Base]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/reading_room/21.pdf|title=Narrative Summary of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons 1950–1980|publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]|date=April 1981|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528154819/http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/reading_room/21.pdf|archive-date=2010-05-28}}</ref>